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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMon, 07 Aug 2017 19:21:39 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5By: Rayhttp://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/08/06/47346#comment-135571
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:36:11 +0000http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=47346#comment-135571Sorry. I don’t know how to do the html links stuff.
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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:35:33 +0000http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=47346#comment-135570Robert Macnish, perhaps. I found a reference for him in Google Books: Robert Macnish, British phrenologist, with the same citation. This is interesting:

“The historian Michael Lynch explains that phrenologists like Macnish and Orson S. Fowler, an American, believed that such “same-sex passions resulted from high Adhesiveness and low Amativeness (which involved exclusively opposite-sex relationships). Those view were significant to Mormonism because phrenology was very popular among 19th century Mormons. It was so popular that some Utah congregations used phrenological publications as Sunday School class textbooks and individual Mormons praised Fowler’s writings. The official “History of the Mormon Church” still publishes Joseph Smith’s 1842 phrenological chart based on a 12-point scale. It described his amativeness and adhesiveness as follows:

Amativeness – 11 [V.] L[arge]… passionately fond of the company of the other sex, and

Adhesiveness – 8 F[air]. Solicitous for the happiness of friends.”

This official history also continues to acknowledge that a score of 11 on the scale (such as the Mormon prophet had) indicated “V.L.,” or an “extreme liability to perversion” in the trait.